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Posted on 24 October 2019
RedHat======================================================================= Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: Ansible security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:3201-01
Product: Red Hat Ansible Engine
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3201
Issue date: 2019-10-24
CVE Names: CVE-2019-14846 CVE-2019-14856 CVE-2019-14858
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1. Summary:
An update is now available for Ansible Engine 2.6.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability
from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.6 for RHEL 7 Server - noarch
3. Description:
Ansible is a simple model-driven configuration management, multi-node
deployment, and remote-task execution system. Ansible works over SSH and
does not require any software or daemons to be installed on remote nodes.
Extension modules can be written in any language and are transferred to
managed machines automatically.
The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version:
ansible (2.6.20)
Bug Fix(es):
* ansible: Incomplete fix for CVE-2019-10206 (CVE-2019-14856)
* ansible: sub parameters marked as no_log are not masked in certain
failure scenarios (CVE-2019-14858)
* ansible: secrets disclosed on logs when no_log enabled (CVE-2019-14846)
See:
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.6.20/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.6.r
st for details on bug fixes in this release.
4. Solution:
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1755373 - CVE-2019-14846 ansible: secrets disclosed on logs when no_log ena=bled
1760593 - CVE-2019-14858 ansible: sub parameters marked as no_log are not m=asked in certain failure scenarios
1760829 - CVE-2019-14856 ansible: Incomplete fix for CVE-2019-10206
6. Package List:
Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.6 for RHEL 7 Server:
Source:
ansible-2.6.20-1.el7ae.src.rpm
noarch:
ansible-2.6.20-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/
7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14846
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14856
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14858
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.6.20/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.6.r=st
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
Copyright 2019 Red Hat, Inc.
